As the United States mens Olympic basketball team has struggled by its own lofty standards in Rio de Janeiro, former NBA player and current TNT analyst Charles Barkley said the teams woes are rooted in the construction of its roster.
Bob Feller Jersey .?Its not a good team to put together, Barkley, 53, told?Sports360AZ.com.?If you take away?DeAndre Jordan, every guy on that team is a ball-dominant guy. You see them playing a lot of one-on-one basketball.Thats the thing Ive noticed more than anything. Like, you have to understand when you put a team together like that, you have to have some role players.Barkley, who played on the 1992 Dream Team and also won gold in 1996, said Team USA is too reliant on isolation scorers and could benefit from the addition of more role players.?You take a guy like Kyle Lowry, who is a hell of a player, he wants to score.?Kyrie [Irving]?wants to score.?Kevin [Durant]?wants to score.?DeMar [DeRozan]?wants to score. So, I think they have been really stagnant offensively.When they put that team together in the future, they have to realize we cant have just really, really great offensive players. They gotta have players that if they dont get a shot, theyre not just gonna stand around and mope.While the U.S. is the only undefeated team left in the tournament at 5-0, its victories against Australia, Serbia and France in the previous three games have come by a mere 16 points combined.?Team USA faces Argentina on Wednesday in the quarterfinals, a rematch of last months exhibition in Las Vegas. While the Americans throttled Argentina by 37 points in that July 18 tuneup, their road to the gold-medal game will force them to see off the most seasoned competition they could have drawn just for the chance to play for the championship in coach Mike Krzyzewskis farewell tournament.Information from ESPNs Marc Stein was used in this report.?
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